Australian machinima producer and virtual worlds observer, Skribe Forti, has created a very interesting review of mirror world Twinity. It seems a balanced piece that covers both the strengths and weaknesses of Twinity, which is currently in beta: What are your thoughts? Do you agree with Skribe's summary of Twinity? … [Read more...] about Another perspective on Twinity
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A quick tour of Sony’s virtual world – Home
Below is a great end-user tour of Sony's Home virtual world for Playstation 3. There's a lot to like about the graphics and parts of the user interface with Home. It's certainly thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft and Nintendo who have some catching up to do with their consoles. The most obvious question to me when seeing worlds like Home and Twinity, is why would you bother … [Read more...] about A quick tour of Sony’s virtual world – Home
Twinity: 100K users and Mac version on the horizon
Twinity has just in the past hour passed one hundred thousand registrations. That was the reason I headed to Twinity's website. What caught my attention were four new words: It's obviously unclear on how progressed Twinity are with Mac development (something we've now sought clarification on), but if things are progressing in that regard, kudos to Metaversum. That, and the … [Read more...] about Twinity: 100K users and Mac version on the horizon
Google Lively bites the dust
After less than five months, Google have pulled the plug on Lively. In a fairly terse statement, no substantive reason is given for the axing beyond wanting to concentrate on "our core search, ads and apps business". It's a quick demise for a virtual world that showed some initial promise. It did have its controversies over its short life, but nothing that would have driven … [Read more...] about Google Lively bites the dust
VastPark expand developer pool, SDK on the way
Vastpark's slow but steady progress toward launch continues, with an announcement that its Developer Program has some new faces. Two of those faces include Australian-based companies: Finpa (an eLearning outfit) and The Project Factory (a virtual worlds developer). The other entities coming on board are MindTaffy (USA), Metaversatility (USA) and ADMINO (Finland) … [Read more...] about VastPark expand developer pool, SDK on the way